Sexuality, Obscenity and Community

Sexuality, Obscenity and Community

C. Gupta

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2002
Materia
Historia de Asia
ISBN:
9780312295455

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INTRODUCTION Women, Caste, Class and Hindu Communalism REDEFINING OBSCENITY AND AESTHETICS IN PRINT Colonial Perceptions of Obscenity ’Obscenity’ in Hindi Literature Indigenous Elite and Literary Concerns ’Dirty’ Literature: Contesting the Logic of Morality? Brahmacharya, Kaliyug and the Advertisement of Aphrodisiacs SANITISING WOMEN’S SOCIAL SPACES Controls Over Entertainment The Danger of Prostitutes: The Moral and Urban Geographical Framework of Hindus MAPPING THE DOMESTIC DOMAIN Unstable Sexualities: The Sexual Politics of the Home Conjugality and Desire: The Power of Difference Fashion, Clothes, Jewelry, Purdah The Devar-Bhabhi Relationship Education and the Fear of Reading: Stated Aims, Unintended Consequences Gender, Health and Medical Knowledge From the Traditional Dais to Trained Midwives Child-care, Women’s Health and Indigenous Practices Plague and Women’s Honour THE ICON OF ’MOTHER’: BHARAT MATA, MATRI BHASHA AND GAU MATA Mapping the Mother/Nation: The Bharat Mata Temple at Banaras Language Debates Hindi as ’Mother’ Lewd or Chaste. Feminine or Masculine? The Cow as ’Mother’ ’US’ AND ’THEM’: ANXIOUS HINDU MASCULINITY AND THE ’OTHER’ From Malabar to Malkanas: The Shuddhi and Sangathan Movements Evoking Hindu Male Prowess, Community and Nation The Hindu Woman as Sister-in-Arms Conceiving the ’Other’ Approaching the Muslim Woman Abduction Campaigns and the Lustful Muslim Male Innovative Propaganda Manipulation HINDU WOMEN, MUSLIM MEN Regulating Women by Fracturing Everyday Shared Spaces Economic and Social Boycott Attacking the Cult of Ghazi Mian Hindu Wombs, Muslim Progeny: Shifting Debates on Widow Remarriage The ’Problem’ of Widows’ Sexuality The Numbers Game SOME CONCLUSIONS AND BEYOND Elopements and Conversions: The Recuperative Possibilities of (Im)possible Love?

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